Reconstruction Era Tales From South Carolina History
Fragmented OCR recounts anecdotes from Reconstruction era South Carolina about negro legislators, lavish spending symbols, and vivid court and political satire. Includes Joe Brown era rail history, Judge Macky quips, and caricatured depictions of postwar governance and pride in state progress, with scattered, loud memories of Van Buren and plantation life.
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South Carolina
Thomas Jefferson’ Macky
Hampton
A. S. Wallace
Macky
York
John C. Sheppard
Edgefield
Tye
Jefferson's Real Estate Deal Sealed Great Land Purchase
On December 30, 1808 Thomas Jefferson completed the sale of the Louisiana purchase, ending Napolean s bid to keep North American colonies and giving the United States control of the Mississippi trade outlet. The deal totaled about 15 million dollars for roughly 1 171 000 square miles, a tract larger than the original 13 states. The anniversary celebration occurred in the rooms where the transfer happened in New Orleans.
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Thomas Jefferson
United Stats
New Orleans
Mississippi
Nuapaicon
France
North America
Lousiana
United States
Historic Fort Saint Philip for sale on Mississippi
Historic Fort Saint Philip on the Mississippi River below New Orleans is offered for sale by the army quartermaster general. Bids for the 1 098 acre reservation open January 8. The fort, named for King Philip of Spain, was built circa 1780 and helped guard the river. its fall with Fort Jackson aided Farragut’s rise to fame after the 1862 New Orleans capture.
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Washington
Fort
Saint Philip
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Phillip
Fort Jackson
Farragut
Chicago Youths Witnessed Outburst in Court by Margaret Novak
Margaret Novak 18 of Chicago assaulted a witness and taunted officials in a courtroom aiming to aid two youths. She spent Christmas in county jail. Musalini, a national businessman, condemns habitual offenders to a bleak island with 40 cents daily work pay, noting enforcement would require a very large island in the United States.
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Margaret Novak
Chicago
Musalini
United States
Miss Miami Named Best Looking Girl at Florida Resort
Miss Helen Briggs is designated Miss Miami, hailed as the prettiest and slimmest girl at the famed Florida resort, a distinction highlighting Miami’s noted pulchritude among its women.
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Helen’ Briggs
Miami
Florida
Special Term of Aiken Court Sets January 14 1929
Notice from Aiken County Court of General Sessions announces a special term ordered by Chief Justice R C Watts to begin January 14 1929 at 10 o clock A M. All parties witnesses jurors and others with cases before the court are summoned to attend and follow orders issued. Clerk Thomas T Cushman authenticates the seal and date December 24 1928.
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Court OF General Sessions
County OF
Aiken
Supreme Court of
South Carolina
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South Carolina History
Martin Vanen
Deer
Charleston
Hamburg
Branchie
South’ Carolina
Shair
Dask
Ehandlier
United South Calina
Wallace
Ir7r
State Agricultural and Mechanical Society
Cutir
Cornwallis
Alfred Tinger
Buick
Uberal G. M. A.C
Hallman-Johnson Motor Co
Aiken, South Carolina
Orville Wrights
Wrights
Isabel Brenden
Tee
Ston
America
Sandee Tai
Tocaster
Arthur. Chase Needles
Edith Hortense Clarke
St.ete
Edith Abcir
Mark
Viola Gentry
New Jersey
Long Island
Roel
Jefferson
Fort 13
St. Philip
Seanos
Lombard Iron Works
Augusta, Ga
Thomas T. Cushman
Aiken County, S. C
Palmetto Engineering Co, L. N. McCullough, C. E., Mer
Henry J. Godin
Broad Street
J. HW. Johnson, All. A
Aiken, S.C
Bank of Western Carolina Building
Ce Cn Warmers & Merchants Bank
Budding
Webb
Columbia, S. C
Taylor Street
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